JUAN OF THE DEAD Looks Awesome!

I love zombie movies. I don't care if it's a played-out genre, I love end-of-the-world cannibal apocalypse stuff, and much of the fun of it is imagining yourself if and when the zombies do come. It's like when RED DAWN came out, my friends would spend hours thinking up scenarios about what we'd do if the Russians parachuted into Houston. There's been so many riffs on the genre since Romero's original classic. But I've never seen one quite like this.

Latino Review's got the exclusive look at what looks to be Cuba's first horror film, and budget issues aside, it looks like a hell of a lot of fun. Zombie films have taken on the subject of immigration before - that's what's wonderful about zombie films, they make the best social commentary of any horror genre - but I don't think we've ever seen a zombie apocalypse shot inside Cuba before. If Fantastic Fest scores this movie, I'm all over it. Please, Fantastic Fest, score this movie.

JUAN OF THE DEAD is written and directed by Alejandro Brugués. Who knows if this will get wide release? If Fantastic Fest does get it, I bet it'll be the belle of the ball this year.

...The locals should be experts, since they've been ruled by a Zombie for at least the last decade....*ZING!*
Now, on with the copies. I'm waiting with baited breath for 'Zombies on a Mothafuckin' Plane'.....
And where's the love for a Zombie-themed kung fu flick? I ask you.

Looks like a rib-tickiling (or rib-chomping) good time. Always like to poke fun at the living dead and this seems like the ticket. Dissident zombies being sent by the Imperialist U.S. to invade the Socialist paradise of Cuba. Love a little satarical humor with my undead as well. Guess time are changing (for the better) in Cuba if they were able to make this film there. Viva Juan!

Why no word on World War Z?
i saw a fluff piece on it with Pitt's kids on set complaining about the loud explosions or some such. But nothing here.
Bitching about the Resident Evil movies is like being handed a bag of cotton candy, and then complaining that you haven't been given a four-course thanksgiving feast.
They are what they are.

...About the Zombies at my office; they're everywhere. You can tell who they are... Because they typically groan about football, domestic beer, and NASCAR. I've been able to live among them so far unnoticed by appearing to seem interested and acting like a drooling moron, too...But my number will be up eventually, and it'll be too late....But it's all for the greater good.
The truth is out there...

Since when did Shawn of the dead have copyright over comedy zombie films. I understand the title's resemblance to Shawn of the Dead but this looks nothing like it. Comedy zombie is a great genre and Shawn just tapped it.

Can we stop praising the social commentary in zombie movies? It's usually about as deep and meaningful as bad high school poetry. If you've ever watched a zombie movie and it caused you to change the way you look at society, you're probably a fucking idiot.

...and that mistake being the unoriginal titles. For example, I am playing a zombie in the movie "Detention of the Dead", slated for release next year. Original tagline for this flick? "When there's no room in hell, the dead will go...to detention."

At first I thought this was going to be one of those hipster films that are supposed to be ironically cool....like that shitty trailer about the car tire that's killing people...but this movie looks pretty awesome. I'd pay a full movie ticket price to watch this.

man this is so cool. I have seen a lot of folks talk zombie movie lately citing 1969 notld as the birthplace of the genre and thats so far off. zombies emerged into american cinema as a pretty racist satire of black people in early 30s serials (something lost continent I forget) but was quickly reclaimed with easy to see public doman 1934 chloe love is calling you and 1936 devil's daughter with the black great garbo nina mae mckinney.
so if anything... its always wrong to make a zombie movie without black people, or without a nod to american tourist destination countries like haiti or cuba ala 1930s, right?
so now cuba finally getting to do its own zombie movie. holy fuck! thats so freaking awesome its bending my mind!

Zombies = social commentary is all you hear every time one of these movies comes out? Fucking hell! Really? You think THAT is social commentary? You think anything Romero came out with is some kind of deep insight into the human condition? if so, then you are a clueless and empty vessel.

The Resident Evil series was NEVER going to be any good as long as Paul "What Script?" Anderson was in charge while all of Romero's offerings have been frankly shit. I was insanely hyped for Shaun of the Dead but feel that the movie was okay, not great. 28 Days Later wasn't a zombie movie but a "plague" film. They were NOT the living dead. Same thing with Zombieland which was marred with annoying "comedy" and overall annoyed me.
The one and only truly GREAT piece of Zombie entertainment I've seen this decade has been Dead Set which was written by the briliant Charlie Brooker. A fucking excellent piece of work and the modern day equivilant of Dawn of the Dead IMHO.
It's strange that most of these zombie flicks haven't done anything for me as I'll watch almost anything if it involves zombie, Hell, I absolutely LOVE Nightmare City and that's a terrible movie.

quite a bit of time in Cuba. They steal films from america and show them on TV over the weekend. They don't discriminate either. They show anything form blockbusters to DTV stuff. It doesn't matter.
One of the great sights is when the Latin American film festival comes around in November. They show international films at all the movie houses in Habana and sell tickets for the entire festival or single tickets for single movies. It is the line for the latter where you see fights breaking out all the time. It gets fierce.
My fiend saw them filming Juan of The Dead and assumed it was a Sean of The Dead Cuban knock off.